Writer's Guild Strike of 2023 - Fuck these people

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

TBH this is one of my favorite happenings this year. Every time I look at this thread, I smile. "Fuck These People" is perhaps the ideal tagline.

Fran, meet mirror.

It's actual good news.

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

I know I'm preaching to the choir when I say this here, but I don't care if they ever start working again.

I don't have any need for Hollywood or the crap they produce anymore. I have the Internet, I'm fluent in more than one language, and I can handle subtitles just fine. I have the entire damn world to choose from. I could spend the rest of my life watching nothing but old luchador movies and anime from the 90s and I'd be just fine. What do I care if Black Lesbian Show #94780 isn't getting any more episodes? I just learned about Neo Ranga!

Even if this weren't the case, I'm not forgiving the vermin in the American entertainment complex for what they've done. I'm not going to forgive them for turning into a leftist propaganda mill. I'm not going to forgive them for glamorizing liberal bigotry and outright deifying black racism. I'm not going to forgive them for the violent, hateful temper tantrum they threw over Trump. I'm not going to forgive them for how much fun they had watching the rest of us suffer through the riots and lockdowns of 2020. I'm not going to forgive them for how they helped take everything ugly, wrong, and evil in the world, and force us to treat is as the new normal and the new good. To Hell with all of them!

 

[Corette]

old luchador movies

Intriguing.
Are these good starting points or could you recommend something else from this genre?

 

[Ghostse]

I'm really crossing my fingers that Andrzej does the right thing and writes an opus that just shits all over the show writers. I'm really curious as to why he wasn't in the writer's room to begin with. Such potential lost. Not every time you get a show where the lead actor is a legitimate fan of the original stories. They were handed the biggest silver platter and they decided to smear it with shit. Amazing.

tl;dr, Hollywood does everything they can to keep the original writer of an adaptive work out of the writers room and away from the set except for photo-op publicity shots. Part of it is practical, there are already enough unwarrented massive egos between writers, directors and actors they don't need a writer who doesn't understand the medium introducing MORE conflict. But mostly its just so they can rape the work to death with DEI while they fully miss (or complete 180) the themes.

I believe it. I mean, ten years ago I would have been happy to have one script at least looked at. But then I realized, Hollywood doesn't care about anything but nepotism. All of these writers now are probably running in the same echo chamber circles and getting access to shows/movies they probably have no business touching. Am I far off in my suspicions?

Sort of. They don't even care about nepotism in the writers room. They want obedience first and output second. (Which is why the writers room is such a hotbed of nepotism; Well connected and got a worthless relative? Stick 'em in a writers room, and if they don't get in line, the studios can squeeze the connected relative.)
The last writers strike was a godsend for the studios (once the production schedule was unfucked that is). They could get in a bunch of new faggots, let them make some characters gay and/or niggers, and these retards signed away all rights to their work in lieu of a W-2 paycheck. While they are being abused, they are also out masturbating to the world about how important it is that the Heman reboot kills Heman off in the first episode so there can lesbians or that the Princess in the Willow series is pansexual and non-binary. And when they stop being useful or a good lapdog, you can just fire them.
I mean yes movies have nosedived in to the shitter in terms of quality since, but do you think the LA Jews give a fuck beyond how many shekels it made the goys part with?

So here is a story about how Disney intends to handle the writer strike:

TL;DW for the writer's strike discussion:
The rumor is Bob Iger will use the strikes as an excuse to clean put Kathleen Kennedy's diversity hires from Disney.

lol. I cannot tell if you are serious posting or not.

This is Doomcock, better known as Doomcuck. This nigga repeated one leak from 4chan about the plot to Star Wars 9 like 4 years ago, and has been dead wrong on everything (that hasn't been said by someone else) ever since.

He makes his bread and butter as a copium provider to disgrunted Star Wars fans, keeping talking about a "lucasfilm civil war" how THIS time Kathleen Kennedy is out. Its complete garbage to the point I'm pretty sure he's a controlled opposition shill on Disney's payroll. Everything, from The Mandalorian's success, to Kenobi and Andor's failures, is the excuse to evict Kennedy and her wine-aunt club.

So if he's saying Iger will use this to clean house, what will happen is anyone white and male (unless trans) who is still areound will be fired, and more nigger faggot trannies will hired, while Kennedy will be elevated to godhood.

 

[George Lucas]

I know I'm preaching to the choir when I say this here, but I don't care if they ever start working again.

I don't have any need for Hollywood or the crap they produce anymore. I have the Internet, I'm fluent in more than one language, and I can handle subtitles just fine. I have the entire damn world to choose from. I could spend the rest of my life watching nothing but old luchador movies and anime from the 90s and I'd be just fine. What do I care if Black Lesbian Show #94780 isn't getting any more episodes? I just learned about Neo Ranga!

Even if this weren't the case, I'm not forgiving the vermin in the American entertainment complex for what they've done. I'm not going to forgive them for turning into a leftist propaganda mill. I'm not going to forgive them for glamorizing liberal bigotry and outright deifying black racism. I'm not going to forgive them for the violent, hateful temper tantrum they threw over Trump. I'm not going to forgive them for how much fun they had watching the rest of us suffer through the riots and lockdowns of 2020. I'm not going to forgive them for how they helped take everything ugly, wrong, and evil in the world, and force us to treat is as the new normal and the new good. To Hell with all of them!

I also realized recently that there is such a huge backlog of movies that I haven’t seen or could watch again that I probably never will go to the movies ever again. Hot anime girls have been crying to me to go see Oppenheimer because ‘it’s so good!’ and I’m just like ‘No.’ Who wants to spend $40 to sit in a dark room for three hours?

 

[Mukhrani]

I know I'm preaching to the choir when I say this here, but I don't care if they ever start working again.

I don't have any need for Hollywood or the crap they produce anymore. I have the Internet, I'm fluent in more than one language, and I can handle subtitles just fine. I have the entire damn world to choose from. I could spend the rest of my life watching nothing but old luchador movies and anime from the 90s and I'd be just fine. What do I care if Black Lesbian Show #94780 isn't getting any more episodes? I just learned about Neo Ranga!

Even if this weren't the case, I'm not forgiving the vermin in the American entertainment complex for what they've done. I'm not going to forgive them for turning into a leftist propaganda mill. I'm not going to forgive them for glamorizing liberal bigotry and outright deifying black racism. I'm not going to forgive them for the violent, hateful temper tantrum they threw over Trump. I'm not going to forgive them for how much fun they had watching the rest of us suffer through the riots and lockdowns of 2020. I'm not going to forgive them for how they helped take everything ugly, wrong, and evil in the world, and force us to treat is as the new normal and the new good. To Hell with all of them!

I've been watching Chinese historical dramas and honestly it's like I just let a huge weight off my shoulder. I know there's ZERO chance that some nigger with a manchu dreadlock queue will walk in at some point with his eyes taped up like Mickey Rooney 'uh bing chong ching chong muh dick'. Zero chance. In all the shows I watched there was ONE white dude (Lang Shining, so historically accurate), and you know what? I could still relate to the characters - even though they were all Chinese, because the stories were compelling (if sometimes a little bit campy). Downside was that I couldn't tell any of these bitches apart at first but eventually I got the hang of it. It's just so insane that we can't have a single historically accurate, mature historical drama set in the West any more, the only place I can watch a period piece that doesn't make my eyes roll out of my head is fucking China, a country that launched a brutal inquisition against its own historical culture within living memory.

Was also really weird to watch the Chinese noble court play polo - didn't realize it was a Mongol thing that was also historically important to East Asian aristocracies.

I also realized recently that there is such a huge backlog of movies that I haven’t seen or could watch again that I probably never will go to the movies ever again. Hot anime girls have been crying to me to go see Oppenheimer because ‘it’s so good!’ and I’m just like ‘No.’ Who wants to spend $40 to sit in a dark room for three hours?

The last time I went to a basic bitch movie theater the PREVIEWS didn't start until 30 minutes after the scheduled time, I spent half an hour eating half my popcorn while watching the same fucking car commercial three times and a bunch of internal ads for concessions, before watching previews that didn't interest me at all. Never again, I'm either going to one of those expensive movie theaters where you can get drunk or not at all.

 

[SentinentCloud]

It's Cringe but it isn't incorrect.

Its cringe with a good soul

 

[Random Internet Person]

 

[monk]

A youtuber has made a video tour of the inventory of a LA prop rental company that rents old tech (TVs, computers, radios, ...) to movie productions. In it they discuss how the writers guild strike has not only shut down movie productions but also had a trickle down effect on all the local busineses supporting it (like their own, and catering, hotels, laudry cleaning, ...) which are losing business.

IMO they'll just have to adapt or go out of business. If their only way to survive is by bring fed by Hollywood, they are an unfortunate collateral, but the beast must be slain.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I feel bad for the props. Hope they'll find good homes.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

When the topic of the strikes was brought up, Porter shared that he’s having to take cost-saving measure as various projects he was set to work on in September have been tabled.

The fact that a drag queen still manages to curse out Bob Iger while losing his home in the process is just proof that this strike is only about being loud and virtue signaling, while not having your real priorities straightened out.

The local radio's national news recently reported something similar in that many strikers are starting to feel the financial consequences of being on strike for an extended time and they're bouncing and squeaking over it.

Maybe it's the helicopter parents that shielded these people from consequences as kids that has them failing to grasp that a strike means no income apart from any strike pay rationed out by the union(s) and whatever grift money they can con out of pay pigs. They don't seem to realize that the decision to strike means that a decision was made that not working is the more attractive option to either working with an expired contract being temporarily extended or not having a new contract.

It also probably doesn't help these people also have little to no financial management/literacy skills either. Even with California's high cost of living, there are ways to properly manage one's finances even on a tight budget.

I spent half an hour eating half my popcorn while watching the same fucking car commercial three times and a bunch of internal ads for concessions, before watching previews that didn't interest me at all.

The last time I went to see a move at a theater, both the snack bar plugs and the ads were more annoying than most of the ads that permeate YouTube without an ad blocker. Sad part is that despite showing multiple coming attractions, these films seem to share the same basic cookie cutter plot and casting -- so much so that the cliche "you've seen one, you've seen 'em all" is true here.

And Hollywood wonders why those who aren't blind consumers aren't watching what they produce.
Edited to fix wrong word.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

By this logic we need Netflix to Adapt Berserk..so it raises the Dead and we get an ending.

That's assuming Idolmaster doesn't resurrect Miura first.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

A youtuber has made a video tour of the inventory of a LA prop rental company that rents old tech (TVs, computers, radios, ...) to movie productions. In it they discuss how the writers guild strike has not only shut down movie productions but also had a trickle down effect on all the local busineses supporting it (like their own, and catering, hotels, laudry cleaning, ...) which are losing business.

IMO they'll just have to adapt or go out of business. If their only way to survive is by bring fed by Hollywood, they are an unfortunate collateral, but the beast must be slain.

Now this is true trickle-down economics here.

Texas is trying to make itself Hollywood and it did a video with a bunch of celebrities explaining the situation, that it would provide jobs for caterers, hotel-owners, independent workers, restaurants, and even Uber drivers.

 

[cybertoaster]

China, a country that launched a brutal inquisition against its own historical culture within living memory.

Don't worry we're in the initial stages of doing the same.

We're already have retarded kids vandalizing priceless art pieces and mobs defacing statues regardless of who those people were (see the union army black regiment statue).

 

[Positron]

The local radio's national news recently reported something similar in that many strikers are starting to feel the financial consequences of being on strike for an extended time

"Extended time"?! I thought it is barely 100 days? These shitters don't even have four month's worth of savings?

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

"Extended time"?! I thought it is barely 100 days? These shitters don't even have four month's worth of savings?

They can't even plan out story lines. You think they can plan out finances?

 

[Anonitolia]

Texas is trying to make itself Hollywood

Texas is trying to be California? What has this world come to?

 

[CoolSixtyNiner]

I know I'm preaching to the choir when I say this here, but I don't care if they ever start working again.

I don't have any need for Hollywood or the crap they produce anymore. I have the Internet, I'm fluent in more than one language, and I can handle subtitles just fine. I have the entire damn world to choose from. I could spend the rest of my life watching nothing but old luchador movies and anime from the 90s and I'd be just fine. What do I care if Black Lesbian Show #94780 isn't getting any more episodes? I just learned about Neo Ranga!

Even if this weren't the case, I'm not forgiving the vermin in the American entertainment complex for what they've done. I'm not going to forgive them for turning into a leftist propaganda mill. I'm not going to forgive them for glamorizing liberal bigotry and outright deifying black racism. I'm not going to forgive them for the violent, hateful temper tantrum they threw over Trump. I'm not going to forgive them for how much fun they had watching the rest of us suffer through the riots and lockdowns of 2020. I'm not going to forgive them for how they helped take everything ugly, wrong, and evil in the world, and force us to treat is as the new normal and the new good. To Hell with all of them!

Yes. I can watch one great movie a night made before 2012, on the nights when we aren't watching Alone, or going to the park, or going out to dinner, or playing a board game, or just sitting next to each other reading, or when my girl just needs to watch bong retards debase themselves on Love Island and I sit next to her playing factorio, or we spend the night with friends and i could die age 100 never ever seeing another movie made by these degenerates.

The only ones affected by this strike are terminal consoomers and i am thrilled to know they are also suffering.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Texas is trying to be California? What has this world come to?

Austin is a big tech city. And it's weird, a thing that recent college grads love. Also, the cost of living isn't as steep as California. Also, COVID happened and politics happened and the differing politics of Texas was lucrative to some.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

"Extended time"?! I thought it is barely 100 days? These shitters don't even have four month's worth of savings?

Given how many of these people live in the moment and live paycheck to paycheck financially and spend the money as soon as it's earned, 100 days forward probably is an extended time to them when most of us would see it as a short-term blip.

Texas is trying to make itself Hollywood and it did a video with a bunch of celebrities explaining the situation, that it would provide jobs for caterers, hotel-owners, independent workers, restaurants, and even Uber drivers.

Texas is trying to be California? What has this world come to?

States other than California all believe that offering the right amount and type of tax incentives will help lure some of the "big" film projects to move from California to their states. Unfortunately, the industry won't relocate unless the incentives are absolutely lucrative in their favor. Sauce: My state tried this and when budgetary woes and a change in the governor's party happened, the incentives were greatly reduced and the film industry pulled out of the state almost overnight, leaving behind empty buildings and a diminished economic impact.

TL; DR - The industry is pitting states against each other to be the next Hollywood, but it will gladly return to California in a heartbeat if they don't get the ridiculous tax breaks they demand.